BBC One’s ‘Silk’ To End Run After Three Seasons

BBC One legal drama Silk is to end its run with its current season, the show’s third, the broadcaster announced today.

Silk, which follows a group of barristers in London, was commissioned by the BBC’s Controller of Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson & then BBC One Controller Danny Cohen and first aired in 2011. The drama starred Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones and has been a hit since day one, with episodes frequently pulling in around 5 million viewers. The series will conclude after a tense two-parter starting on Monday 24 March.

“It has been a complete joy to work with a group of actors as good as this and with a lead actress who I consider to be the best there is”, said series creator Peter Moffat. “The main characters in Silk all have personal and professional stories which are coming to a natural conclusion at the end of this current series – it would be dishonest as a writer and unfair to the integrity of the show and everyone involved in it, to prolong the series beyond what I hope is a powerful and compelling denouement.”

Kate Harwood, Head of BBC Drama Production, England, added: “We are immensely proud to have produced three series of Peter Moffat’s highly appreciated legal drama Silk. Maxine Peake’s iconic portrayal of heroic, complex, truth-seeking barrister Martha Costello has won her huge admiration and a loyal following and Martha will be bowing out with one of the biggest and most personal cases of her life in which the personal and professional collide.”

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